The Professionals: Mk I Blu Ray – Lewis Collins, Keith Barron 

The first 13 episodes of the classic 1970s crime series. Bodie (Lewis Collins) and Doyle (Martin Shaw) are two elite officers in the secretive CI5 service, a unit staffed by expert policemen, soldiers and special forces under the command of the formidable Cowley (Gordon Jackson). In this series, a terrorist threatens to contaminate London’s water supply, Bodie and Doyle masquerade as the bodyguards of a kidnap victim, and some former colleagues from Bodie’s mercenary days arrive in London to pull off a daring bank robbery. The episodes are: ‘Private Madness, Public Danger’, ‘The Female Factor’, ‘Old Dog With New Tricks’, ‘Killer With a Long Arm’, ‘Heroes’, ‘Where the Jungle Ends’, ‘Close Quarters’, ‘Everest Was Also Conquered’, ‘When the Heat Cools Off’, ‘Stakeout’, ‘Long Shot’, ‘Look After Annie’ and ‘Klansmen’.

Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977, their boss George Cowley, head of CI5 couldn’t put it more succinctly than his opening gambit ‘anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I’ve got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals’. Featuring the perfect ensemble…